About

Prior to founding Fair Oaks, Mr. Coyle was a Principal at GSO where he was a senior credit analyst and the Portfolio Manager for GSO/Blackstone’s eight London-based CLO funds with assets of over c.€3 billion. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2006, Mr. Coyle spent two years at Fitch Ratings as a Director in the Leveraged Finance Group where he was responsible for assigning public and private credit ratings to leveraged loans and high yield bonds and publishing research on the leveraged finance market. Mr. Coyle began his career at JPMorgan where he spent six years (1995 to 2001) working in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Sponsor Coverage and Leveraged Finance groups. Mr. Coyle has a B.Comm International, a joint honors degree in Business and French, from University College Dublin.

Prior to founding Fair Oaks, Mr. Ramos was a Managing Director of GSO Capital Partners (“GSO”), part of the Blackstone Group. Prior to joining GSO in June 2008, Mr. Ramos was the founding partner of Washington Square Investment Management Limited (“Washington Square”), a specialist credit investment manager responsible for, among others, the launch of Carador Income Fund Plc (‘‘Carador’’) in 2006, one of the first London-listed credit investment companies. Prior to founding Washington Square, Mr. Ramos spent over nine years at Morgan Stanley (London) in their Fixed Income Division where he specialized in high yield cash and derivative products. He holds a BSc. (Honors) in Economics from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), Madrid, Spain and a MSc. (Econ) in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Prior to founding Fair Oaks, Mr. Sheoris was a senior executive in the credit group of Apollo Global Management where he was responsible for facilitating the acquisition and merger of Stone Tower Capital’s non-investment functions into Apollo’s global infrastructure. Mr. Sheoris was one of the three original founders of Stone Tower Capital, a member of the firm’s Management Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the firm’s CLOs and hedge funds. Mr. Sheoris was the lead partner in charge of developing and overseeing all of the non-investment functions of Stone Tower and served as the Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, Mr. Sheoris sat on a number of investment committees and was solely responsible for the negotiation and structuring of all of Stone Tower’s investment vehicles, leverage sources and derivative instruments. Prior to the launch of Stone Tower, Mr. Sheoris was the founder and general partner of a venture capital fund focused on infrastructure and software. Mr. Sheoris began his career as an investment banking analyst in the private equity sponsor group at Smith Barney Inc. and later as an analyst on the convertible debt capital markets desk. Mr. Sheoris is a graduate of the Eller College of the University of Arizona and holds a BSBA in both finance and management information systems.

Prior to joining Fair Oaks, Mr. Wallace was Head of Corporate Credit at MDB Group Limited (Mediterranean Bank Plc) where his investment activity focused on leveraged loans, high yield bonds and direct lending opportunities. In addition to sourcing c€3bn of leveraged loans and high yield bonds, he completed the acquisition of two CLO loan portfolios and was responsible for the issuance of one of the best performing CLO 2.0 transactions (Creditflux Award Winner 2015 and 2016). Prior to joining Mediterranean Bank, Mr Wallace was a Senior Adviser to the Bank of England and an analyst and portfolio manager at Pamplona Capital and New Amsterdam Capital. Mr. Wallace holds a BS in Finance and a BS in International Studies from Indiana University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Charles is Fair Oaks’ Head of Legal and Compliance. Prior to joining Fair Oaks, Charles was Head of Legal and Product Development at ETF Securities (“ETFS”) where he was responsible for oversight of the legal function and the development and maintenance of ETFS’ range of exchange traded products across Europe, the U.S. and Asia, with total assets under management of approximately $32 billion at its peak. Charles also served as a director of ETFS’ London-based, FCA-regulated operating entity and served on various committees. Prior to joining ETFS in 2007, Charles spent 2 years at Nomura International in London as a transaction lawyer working with their International Equity Derivatives team. Charles began his career at Dechert, a leading international law firm, where he spent 6 years as a lawyer specialising in financial services and investment funds.